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LIDICKER
1958
(July 12 cont.)
Noticed a gravel road to the W. 1/3 mi. farther is Club Campestre. After buying some supplies in Aguascalientes we headed W on the rd. to Calvillo. Shortly W of the city limits of Agzc.
we ran into a road block. This was apparently
a detour to the N, but off to the S ran a rough
+ muddy dirt road to Villa Hidalgo so we took
that. A little over 5 mi. from the Agzc. city
limits we came to some sort of an institution
that we learned was called Cindad de los
Ninos. It was located next to a small
shallow lake with much marshy vegetation
around it, + the whole aspect looked very tropical.
We continued about 1/2 of a mi farther where we
camped on a fairly dry slope. About 1/2 of a mile
beyond our camp the dirt rd. we were on junctioned
with the main gravel road connecting the
Calvillo rd. with Villa Hidalgo. Set 49 traps
in fairly thick brushy cover, on a moderately rocky
slope + along + rock wall + outcropping.
Was lots of Neotoma signs in the rock wall. Set 40 traps
on more open flat, but still fairly thick - mesquite,
mod. grass, etc. Finally we set 15 traps along
a brushy + rocky edge to the cleared road
side. Total traps = 102. Saw 1 Sylvilagus.
Also saw quite a few nighthawks + Barn
Swallows + at one point a large no. of toll